Sefer L’Veit Ya’akov – sermons on the weekly Torah portions, for special Shabbats and more, by Rabbi Jacob Joseph (Charif), Rav HaKollel of New York. First edition. Vilna, 1888. With the jacket cover.
The jacket cover bears the author’s handwritten dedication, “To … the pleasant, superlative, and wise Rabbi Shmuel Shaul …”
The book includes two parts – sermons on the weekly Torah portions and halachic novellae, and sermons for special Shabbats and hadranim . Printed at the end of the second part: “Words of my dear and beloved friend, the honorable Rabbi …” – comments from Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky on the author’s work.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the gaon Rabbi Jacob Joseph .
64; 104, XII pp, + front jacket cover. 22 cm.
Fine-very fine condition. Aging stains. Beautiful new semi-leather binding.